Outlook express

Ken Lang · Post by **Ken Lang** » 28 Jul 2004 6:57 pm

OK. What's the deal with this outlook express wizard that comes up when trying to Email someone here on the forum? It asks if I have pop3, Imap, or HTTP.

Dammed if I know. I have yahoo.com that's all I know. Then the following space asks for server of something.

Anyone able to straighten me out or point to somewhere where I can get the account up and running?

Thanks: Ken

Doug Ferguson · Post by **Doug Ferguson** » 29 Jul 2004 7:42 am

The link to email someone on this forum is using the mailto: function of the browser. What it does, is try to open the designated default mail program on your computer. Since you use yahoo mail, which you get to by going to a web page, you have never set up an account in Outlook Express, but Outlook Express is set up as your default mail program. Basically, if you go ahead and just type in bogus information when it asks you, you can set up the account and it will stop asking you for that. However, the account will not work, and doesn't need to.

If you can keep from clicking on the email address link which activates this function, but try to drag through, and copy the address, then paste it into your yahoo mail, you might not be quite as frustrated with it!
Good Luck!
Doug

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Fergy, MSA Classic D12

Ken Lang · Post by **Ken Lang** » 29 Jul 2004 6:07 pm

Doug: Thanks for the info. This must be a fairly recent change as for a long time here on the Forum I would just click the link and the email box would come up.

I'll probably cut and paste the address and do it in Yahoo and later set up Outlook.

Les Pierce · Post by **Les Pierce** » 1 Aug 2004 2:14 pm

Possibly, at some time, you did an upgrade to Internet Explorer, which upgrades Outlook Express, and so it is behaving like a new installation.

Check under "Tools", "Internet Options" and click the "Programs" tab and see what you have set for your email preference.

Les

Ken Lang · Post by **Ken Lang** » 1 Aug 2004 3:44 pm

Les: Right on. The email preferance is I.E.

I suppose I got upgraded to I.E. when I got my new Dell a few months ago. My normal email is yahoo.

The other choices do not seem palatable. There is nothing in the list that says yahoo, and aol is the dirtbag of the world in my opinion. Can I just type in Yahoo?

Thanks. Ken

Doug Ferguson · Post by **Doug Ferguson** » 2 Aug 2004 7:01 am

No, unfortunately, Yahoo is a website, not a program. Internet options on a Windows computer assumes you will be using a specific program to check email and it wants to be a hero and open it for you automatically when you click on a mailto: link on a web page. It's just one of those things you have to grin and bear until you one day decide to use a hammer to type on the keyboard

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Fergy, MSA Classic D12

Doug Ferguson · Post by **Doug Ferguson** » 2 Aug 2004 7:05 am

Just thought of one thing that makes my last statement untrue: If you pay for Yahoo mail, you can set it up in Outlook Express and then use OE to send and receive mail. Yahoo has a paid version that allows that. Otherwise, grin and hammer--I mean bear it!

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Fergy, MSA Classic D12

Lem Smith · Post by **Lem Smith** » 2 Aug 2004 7:44 pm

Ken,
The free email service Hotmail also allows you to use Outlook Express for your email client as well. I know you already use Yahoo, and may not want to change, but I just thought I would mention this as an option anyway.

Lem